This was a decent year. Definitely not my BEST year, but a decent year, especially compared to last when I looked over everything I read and was kind of like "Ugh. :-/" But this has been a good year. Only two books I really hated and no bad graphic novels (even though a few were mediocre or I didn't connect to them.

Enjoy!

( Poll within! )

Books Without Pictures (27)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy :(
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank :)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath :)
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath :)
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes :)
Awoken by Serra Ellinsen :)
Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer :)
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Movies Seen in Theaters (20)
Saving Mr. Banks :)
Pompeii :)
The Lego Movie :)
12 Years a Slave :)
Noah :)
The Grand Budapest Hotel :)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier :)
The Other Woman :)
X-Men: Days of Future Past :)
Belle :)
Godzilla (2014) :/
Obvious Child :)
Rifftrax: Sharknado :)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes :)
Chef :)
Guardians of the ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again! Small change this year - since I didn't have many books I "finished," I added the one I did to the top of the "read books without pictures" poll. Enjoy and happy new Year!

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Movies Seen in Theaters (18)
On the Road :)
Hava Negila: The Movie :)
Iron Man 3 :)
Mud :/
Star Trek Into Darkness :)
Red 2 :/
Rifftrax Live: Starship Troopers :)
Lovelace :)
The World's End :)
In a World :)
Lee Daniels' The Butler :/
Passion (2013) (see on On Demand) :(
Prisoners (2013) :/
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire :)
Frozen :)
American ( Read more... )

* = POC author

Books Without Pictures Read (21)
The Jefferson Bible ed. by Thomas Jefferson :/
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler* :)
The Lion is In by Delia Ephron :)
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman :)
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano :(
My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley :)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo :)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( Read more... )

Here's my yearly poll for books I read in 2012. This was a bad year in general and not a good year for reading. I was busy, I was tired, I wrote a lot and I didn't enjoy a lot of what I read, either, so that accounts for the meager list of titles. Some of the books are anthologies and some are bigger than others. (Our Mutual Friend, for example.) I ( Read more... )

(TW: Rape)

I know I haven't been around a lot and that there are probably things that are more to the interest of you readers (if you're out there), like The Legend of Korra or Before Watchmen or RuPaul's Drag U. (Ok, well, you should be interested in the last one.) But some time ago I forced my way to Books 7 and 8 of the Anita Blake series and I ( Read more... )

Hey everyone ( Read more... )

The list for what they're going to be like came out. I'm not convinced that these things should be. I'm not convinced that they're going to be good, and approach this project with, let's say, "cynicism but not complete dismissiveness." But I figured I'd take out a couple of moments to say what, to me, looks promising. I mean, you are looking at one ( Read more... )